First post, by CU-133A+
I am restoring/rebuilding a P3 based system and I need your expertise. My optical drive is temperamental during Win 98 install.
Win 98 boot floppy reads CD-ROM fine and I install Win 98. Get through to the initial live OS boot where hardware is installed and it can't read the Win 98 CD. Clicked cancel on all prompts just to get to desktop, shutdown and reseated all cable connections, checked BIOS etc.
Decide to reinstall from scratch. Win 98 boot floppy again and I get a read error! Odd. Can't read CDs at all. I have tried a different boot floppy in case there were issues with the CD-ROM driver on that particular disk, no change.
There is nothing physically wrong with the CD-ROM, IDE cables or power supply. I have been running the same hardware, but different HDD, with Lubuntu and the drive is fully functional; no errors, reads/writes every time, same CD used to install Linux.
Swapping HDDs from Lubunt to MS and back, Win 98 started reading CDs again. Had about a day's woth of playing C&C:Tib Sun then stopped reading. Again, back in Lubuntu works fine.
Any ideas? I am out. 😕
OS: Win 98 OEM
CD-Rom: LG CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo (GCC-4120B)